Willem de Kooning
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Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter renowned for his dynamic, gestural style and influential works such as his "Woman" series.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willem de Kooning canonical | 51 |
| Willem de Kooning oeuvre | 1 |
| de Kooning | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T334268 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willem de Kooning Context triple: [Willem, hasNotableBearer, Willem de Kooning]
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A.
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an influential American abstract expressionist painter best known for his innovative drip painting technique that revolutionized modern art.
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B.
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field canvases marked by vertical “zips” that helped define postwar modern art.
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C.
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly was an American artist known for his pioneering work in hard-edge painting and minimalism, characterized by bold colors, simple geometric forms, and an emphasis on shape and spatial relationships.
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D.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and leading figure of Abstract Expressionism, renowned for his large-scale color field paintings that explore profound emotional and spiritual themes.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist known for his pioneering “Combines” that merged painting and sculpture, helping bridge Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willem de Kooning Target entity description: Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter renowned for his dynamic, gestural style and influential works such as his "Woman" series.
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A.
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an influential American abstract expressionist painter best known for his innovative drip painting technique that revolutionized modern art.
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B.
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field canvases marked by vertical “zips” that helped define postwar modern art.
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C.
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly was an American artist known for his pioneering work in hard-edge painting and minimalism, characterized by bold colors, simple geometric forms, and an emphasis on shape and spatial relationships.
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D.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and leading figure of Abstract Expressionism, renowned for his large-scale color field paintings that explore profound emotional and spiritual themes.
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E.
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist known for his pioneering “Combines” that merged painting and sculpture, helping bridge Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Willem de Kooning Description of subject: Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter renowned for his dynamic, gestural style and influential works such as his "Woman" series.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
de Kooning
subject surface form:
Green River Cemetery
subject surface form:
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
this entity surface form:
Willem de Kooning oeuvre
subject surface form:
Woman I
subject surface form:
Woman II
subject surface form:
Woman III
subject surface form:
Woman IV
subject surface form:
Woman V
subject surface form:
Woman VI
Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam
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Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam
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